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	Melanesian Studies Resource Center & Melanesian Archive, University of California San Diego - http://sshl.ucsd.edu/melanesia/ an overview of library materials, both published and unpublished, pertinent to the study of Melanesia.
	Pioneers of Island Melanesia - http://www.eastpapuan.ling.su.se/ Investigates the prehistory of Island Melanesia, from the time of first settlement some 40,000 years ago until the arrival of speakers of Austronesian languages less than 4,000 years ago.
	Vanuatu Cultural Centre (VCC) - http://arts.anu.edu.au/arcworld/vks/vks.htm Port Vila-based organisation that works to record and promote the diverse cultures of the Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu.
	MelanesiaGenWeb Project - http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~melwgw/ Genealogy and History from the Islands of Melanesia.
	The Heart of the Pearl Shell: The Mythological Dimension of Foi Sociality - http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft7w10087d/ Full text of the 1988 book by James F. Weiner.

	Upper Sepik-Central New Guinea Project - http://uscngp.sai.net.au/ Aims to explore the relationships between material culture on the one hand, and language, geographical propinquity, population, subsistence and environment on the other, in two adjacent regions of Papua New Guinea.
	Maring Hunters and Traders: Production and Exchange in the Papua New Guinea Highlands - http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft2k4004h3/ Full text of the book by Christopher Healey.
	History and Tradition in Melanesian Anthropology - http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft509nb347/ Full text of the 1992 book edited by James G. Carrier.
	Melanesia: Beyond Diversity - http://papuaweb.org/dlib/bk1/rspas-1982/index.html Complete text of the 1982 book edited by R. J. May and Hank Nelson.
	Melanesian Archive Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection - http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/testing/html/mss0181a.html This collection contains single manuscripts, typescripts and other materials which have been given to the Melanesian Archive since 1982. It includes many conference papers and other unpublished reports, most concerning anthropological topics.

	Aesthetic Realism and Anthropology: Papua New Guinea - http://www.perey-anthropology.net/Oksapmin-A.htm A Ph.D. dissertation by Arnold Perey on the Oksapmin of West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea.
	Religion and Customs in Melanesia - http://anglicanhistory.org/oceania/sx_booklet2.html Full text of a 1949 booklet.
	The Legacy of Robert Henry Codrington - http://anglicanhistory.org/oceania/davidson_codrington.pdf An article by Allan K. Davidson on Codrington's impact on Melanesia.
	At Home in Vanuatu - http://www.calacademy.org/exhibits/vanuatu/ A photo-exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences showing cultural aspects of Vanuatu.
	Lecture on the Melanesian Mission - http://anglicanhistory.org/oceania/codrington_lecture1863.pdf Full text of an 1863 lecture by R. H. Codrington on the status of the Anglican Mission in Melanesia.

	Managing Animals in New Guinea: Preying the Game in the Highlands - http://www.dur.ac.uk/paul.sillitoe/animals/ Supplementary material for the book of the same name by Paul Sillitoe about animal husbandry among the Wola (Mendi) People.
	The Finished Course, Being Recollections of Bishop Patteson on the Anniversary of His Death (1873) - http://anglicanhistory.org/oceania/brooke_finished1873.html Full text of the 1873 publication, "The Finished Course, Being Recollections of Bishop Patteson on the Anniversary of His Death".
	Wage, Trade, and Exchange in Melanesia: A Manus Society in the Modern State - http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft6b69p0gx/ Full text of the 1989 book by James G. Carrier and Achsah H. Carrier.
	The New Guinea Villager - http://papuaweb.org/dlib/bk1/rowley/index.html Complete text of the 1965 book The New Guinea Villager by Charles Rowley.
	"A Selection of Fundamentals": The Intellectual Background of the Melanesian Mission of the Church of England, 1850-1914 - http://anglicanhistory.org/oceania/sohmer1988/ Full text of a 1988 Ph.D. dissertation by Sara Harrison Sohmer.

	Coaxing the Spirits - http://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/exhibitions/coaxingthespirits/coaxingthespirit.html The first major exhibition about the art of the Papuan Gulf in over 40 years. On display from April 1-September 17, 2006.
	Essays on the Depopulation of Melanesia - http://anglicanhistory.org/oceania/depopulation1922/ Full text of a 1922 book, edited by W. H. R. Rivers.
	Melanesia To-day: A Study Circle Book - http://anglicanhistory.org/oceania/hopkins_today1927/ Full text of a 1927 book compiled by Arthur Innes Hopkins.

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